Red Grange makes his predictions and analyses of the annual football classics, and the football staff and correspondents present their scouting reports on the contestants. On the right are the TV data for each game. Save them and the scouting reports for use during the games

Prime ministers are seldom free of their countries' problems. But when Ylla, Sports Illustrated's late great animal photographer, found Pandit Nehru of India in his garden a while back, he was playing with a baby tiger.

Meet them here in vignette, with then-and-now pictures: 25 football players of 25 years ago who today serve their fellows as lawyers and judges, ranchers and executives, soldiers and theologians, medical men and atomic scientists

COTTON BOWL

AIR FORCEGuile and gumption mark the alarmingly small but very enthusiastic Air Force Academy Falcons. Coach Ben Martin's dream team hasn't the size to overpower the opposition on offense or defense, so it must substitute speed and intuitive reactions for heft. This the Falcons have done superbly well under the calculatingly reckless direction of young RICH MAYO, a 19-year-old quarterback who passes well and reacts to adversity with the aplomb of a born fighter pilot. The Falcon ground attack is built around the strong running of Fullback STEVE GALIOS, who is the best football player on the Falcon team. The Falcons concentrate on short gainers, aground or in the air, using halfback traps and the belly series with considerable success. The defense, anchored on Tackle BROCK STROM and an agile, hard-tackling guard named HOWARD BRONSON, jabs and feints, hits and runs to avoid being ground down by power.

Before he became the premier postseason performer of his generation, the Patriots icon was a middling college quarterback who invited skepticism, even scorn, from fans and his coaches. That was all—and that was everything